# acte
## Catalan
### Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin actus.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: (Central, Balearic) [ˈak.tə]
* IPA: (Valencia) [ˈak.te]

### Noun

acte m (plural actes)
* act

#### Derived terms

* a l'acte
* acte carnal
* acte de fe
* acte jurídic
* acte sacramental
* acte sexual
* en l'acte
* entreacte
* fer acte de presència

#### Related terms

* acció
* acta
* actiu

### Further reading

* “acte” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
* “acte”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2024
* “acte” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
* “acte” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

## Dutch
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈɑk.tə/
* Audio:(file)
* Hyphenation: ac‧te
* Rhymes: -ɑktə

### Noun

acte f (plural acten or actes, diminutive actetje n)
* Superseded spelling of akte.

## French
### Etymology

Borrowed from Latin actus.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /akt/
* Audio:(file)

### Noun

acte m (plural actes)
* act

#### Derived terms

* acte de décès
* acte de foi
* acte de naissance
* acte manqué
* dont acte
* faire acte de présence
* passage à l’acte
* passer à l’acte
* prendre acte

#### Related terms

* action
* agir

### Further reading

* “acte”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

## Latin
### Etymology 1

From Ancient Greek ἀκτῆ (aktê), late form of ἀκτέα (aktéa), of unknown ultimate origin.

#### Pronunciation

* (Classical Latin) IPA: /ˈak.teː/, [ˈäkt̪eː]
* (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: /ˈak.te/, [ˈäkt̪e]

#### Noun

actē f (genitive actēs); first declension
* a danewort, dwarf-elder

##### Declension

First-declension noun (Greek-type).
| Case | Singular | Plural |
| Nominative | actē | actae |
| Genitive | actēs | actārum |
| Dative | actae | actīs |
| Accusative | actēn | actās |
| Ablative | actē | actīs |
| Vocative | actē | actae |

### Etymology 2
#### Pronunciation

* (Classical Latin) IPA: /ˈaːk.te/, [ˈäːkt̪ɛ]
* (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: /ˈak.te/, [ˈäkt̪e]

#### Participle

ācte
* vocative masculine singular of āctus

### References

* “acte”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
* acte in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
* “acte”, in The Perseus Project (1999) Perseus Encyclopedia‎
* “acte”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
* “acte”, in William Smith, editor (1848), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, London: John Murray
* “acte”, in William Smith, editor (1854, 1857), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, volume 1 & 2, London: Walton and Maberly

## Lithuanian
### Pronunciation

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### Noun

actè
* locative singular of ãctas (“vinegar”)

### Noun

ãcte
* vocative singular of ãctas (“vinegar”)

## Matsés
### Noun

acte
* water

### References

* Guía etnográfica de la alta amazonía: Mayoruna (1994), page 30
* David W. Fleck, Causation in Matses, in The Grammar of Causation and Interpersonal Manipulation, edited by Masayoshi Shibatani

## Middle English
### Alternative forms

* act

### Etymology

Borrowed from Old French act, from Latin ācta, plural of āctus.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈakt(ə)/

### Noun

acte (plural actes)
* An act; an action.
* A written record of acts.
* A law; a statute.
* (pathology, medicine) action, function
* (with in or into) actuality

#### Related terms

* accion
* actour
* actual
* actyf

#### Descendants

* English: act
* Scots: ack, akk, ac', act, actt, auct, accke, aick, akk (older)
* Yola: acte

#### References

* “act(e, adj.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

## Yola
### Etymology

From Middle English acte, from Old French act, from Latin ācta.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /akt/

### Noun

acte
* act
** 1867, CONGRATULATORY ADDRESS IN THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY, page 114, lines 4-5:crave na dicke luckie acte t'uck neicher th' Eccellencie,beg leave at this favourable opportunity to approach your Excellency,

### References

* Jacob Poole (d. 1827) (before 1828) William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, published 1867, page 114